Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!171.64.64.130.MISMATCH!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: misleading error message from variable modifier Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:09:38 -0500 Lines: 10 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <268f06ff-55ee-4364-fa75-54081dc7869a@case.edu> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1519931387 17277 208.118.235.17 (1 Mar 2018 19:09:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, "bash.bug list" To: don fong Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/60, host=mpv3-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=8/60, refid=2.7.2:2018.3.1.184215:17:8.317, ip=, rules=__HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __MULTIPLE_RCPTS_CC_X2, __CC_NAME, __CC_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __INVOICE_MULTILINGUAL, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_400_LESS, BODY_SIZE_200_299, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_RCPT, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.194 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:13785 On 3/1/18 12:24 PM, don fong wrote: > any feedback on this patch? Check the current devel git branch. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/